GEEK WEEK12 [International]

ABOUT ACM
The Association for Computing Machinery is an international scientific and educational
organization dedicated to promote the development and usage of Information Technology
applications. With a worldwide membership, ACM is a leading resource for computer
professionals and students working in various fields of Information Technology. For more
information, please visit: http://www.acm.org/

ABOUT NUCES-ACM

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter was established on the 12th of April, 2001. Since then, the
chapter has been working hard to advance the science & art of information processing and
providing services for the professional development of students and polishing their technical and
administrative skills. The chapter has always served as a training ground for members who wish
to become acquainted with technological trends that are not part of regular academics. It also
provides opportunities to its members to get involved in the management of the Association.
ACM Chapter has become an essential part of all kinds of programming, software, gaming and
quiz competitions organized in the university.

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter has a rich history of organizing and hosting international,
national and local competitions in the fields of software projects, software quiz, programming
and gaming. In doing so, it has received participants from countries in the region and from
major educational institutions in Pakistan. The successful holding and completion of these events
has only added to the growing fame of NUCES-ACM as being the premier ACM Chapter in the
country.
NUCES-ACM frequently organizes various programming, software, quiz and gaming
competitions, short courses, workshops and seminars for the students of the university
throughout the year. Furthermore, the Chapter is also responsible for sponsoring and organizing
all student trips to other educational institutions in the country and abroad, making it very
popular amongst the faculty and students. The Chapter having 200 registered members is the
largest membership based society in the university. http://www.nuces-acm.org/ .
HISTORY OF PAST EVENTS

All Pakistan Quiz & Programming Competition

In March 2002, NUCES-ACM Student Chapter successfully hosted The All Pakistan Quiz and
Programming Competition in which 75 teams from major institutions and Software houses in the
country participated. It was the biggest of its kind ever organized in Pakistan.

REDMATH All Lahore Programming Competition

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter successfully hosted the REDMATH Lahore Programming

Competition on the 26th of April, 2008. The event was well received and was highly successful.
As many as 35 teams from all major institutions in the city participated in the competition
making it one of the premier intra-city competitions of Lahore.

SOFTEC Programming Competition

Since 2002, NUCES-ACM Student Chapter has collaborated with the SOFTEC Society to
organize the Programming Competition at SOFTEC, an annual 2-day I.T. extravaganza held at
FAST-NU. The event is the largest of its kind in South Asia. The Programming Competition has
traditionally been the trump card for SOFTEC, being its most crucial and electrifying event.
Most recently, at the SOFTEC 2007 Programming Competition, NUCES-ACM received
attracted 55 participating teams from all over Pakistan and 2 teams each from Iran and
Bangladesh. At the SOFTEC 2006 Dynamic Programming Competition a record 10 foreign,
including 8 from India 2 from Bangladesh and 45 local teams competed in the event.

IEEE WEEK Coder Competition

NUCES-ACM Student Chapter also collaborates with IEEE-NUCES every year to organize The
Coder Competition at the IEEE Week is held on an annual basis at FAST-NU. Again, it is the
most anticipated event at the Week. In the events 2007 edition 35 teams from all over the
country participated.

MENTOR GRAPHICS All Lahore Distributed Programming Competition

NUCES-ACM introduced the All Lahore Distributed Programming Competition in year 2009
hosted at FAST NU. It was a multi-site competition carried out in the 3 chapters of ACM in
Lahore: namely NUCES ACM, GCU ACM and UET ACM. The event was a huge success!

GOOGLE Mapping Party in collaboration with NUCES ACM

NUCES ACM and the Google Map Maker Community in Pakistan held a half-day of discussion,
interaction and mapping fun which had been termed as the Google Mapping Part at FAST-
NUCES in Lahore.

According to Badar Khushnood, the Pakistan Consultant for Google Inc. the Google Mapping
Party was being held to take stock of what has been accomplished so far and to highlight the
opportunities that lie ahead. The announcement for the event which was organized by the FAST
Lahore ACM chapter in collaboration with Google (P@SHA supported the event) was indeed
tempting. Lots of youngsters have registered for the event. Amongst them were two young
Pakistanis from the UK Faraz Ahmad, a 26 year old programmer living in Glasgow and Jabran
Rafique, an IT Administrator.

GEEK WEEK (BETA)

In 2011 a Geek Week (BETA) on a low scale had been held by NUCES-ACM mainly sponsored
by OSM invention. Participation was mainly within the university and participation ratio was
larger than expected. It comprised of Coding Competitions, Gaming and a very interesting
CUSTOM PC competition. A workshop by OSM Invention was also a major attraction for
students.

WORKSHOPS
Regular workshops are being held throughout summer or winter semester breaks associated with
the various electives in Information technology.
ABOUT GEEK WEEK 2012

The ACM Society of FAST-NU, Lahore is organizing the 1st International Geek Week from 30th
March to 1st April, 2012 sponsored by REDMATH (PVT) LIMITED.

Geek Week is considered one of the biggest Computer Science and Information Technology
extravaganzas in South Asia. It is the 1st Indo-Pak event being organized by the collaboration of
Pakistani and Indian students in the field of IT. The Pakistani and Indian chapters of ACM are
conducting this event simultaneously in five different universities. Students and professionals
will bring forth their work and well-known researchers and academicians have been invited to
judge the competition.

This session has many competitions. These 3 being its biggest highlights:
Asia Cup: An International Distributed Programming Competition
DevFest: 24hr App Development Contest (being held for the first time in Pakistan).
Custom PC: Opportunity to exhibit the customized machines.

GEEK WEEK would be held in collaboration with 3 Pakistani ACM chapters in different
institutions in Pakistan including Fast-NUCES and 2 Indian ACM Student Chapters. The
institutions collaborating for GEEK WEEK 2012 are:

NUCES ACM Lahore, Pakistan

PUCIT-ACM Lahore, Pakistan
GCU-ACM Lahore, Pakistan
Indian Inst. of Tech/ New Delhi ACM , India
SVCE-ACM, Chennai, India

The occasion will consist of the following competitions.

Asia Cup (All-Asia Distributed Programming Competition)

Gaming contest
Development Fest (24 hr-Application Development Competition)
Custom PC
Technology showcase
ACM Logo Designs

The occasion will hold the workshops of the following companies:

Wateen
Google
Microsoft
Details of the competition are given below:

Asia Cup
The Asia Cup is an International Distributed Programming Competition which will be hosted at
FAST-NU. This multi-site competition will be carried out in the 5 chapters of ACM
collaborating all across Asia. The purpose to hold such an event is to integrate the chapters to
follow a potential dimension to pursue advanced and higher levels of technology and provide a
chance to the administration, students and all involved to practically experience the standard of
networking available at their disposal. Moreover, the intention was to bring the curriculum into
practical application thus presenting a challenging environment for strengthening skills. The
competition will test the ability of time and stress management of the participants and help in
sharpening the respective skills.

Programming competition will provide the participants an opportunity to test their knowledge
implementation and enhance their skills. The event will also create a sense of competition among
the regional ACM bodies. Each team will practice to surpass the other and take over the field
which will further intensify the learning activity and performance caliber. Programming
competition planned for the event of Geek Week will follow the format previously adopted in the
ALDPC held in 2009. The chapters constituting the Lahore ACM body will be connected with
high performance networking tools available & merging the ideas with FAST-NU hosting the
entire episode.

The competition will be started in all the 5 ACM chapters collaborating simultaneously and will
proceed with the supervision and technical assistance provided from NUCES-ACM. The
problems and solutions for the competition will be shared and given to all the chapters before the
competition.

Potential Involvement:

Universities (undergraduates)

Expected Numbers of Participants: 500-800

Age Group: 18-25

DevFest (24 hr-Application Development Competition)

DevFest is evolved from the idea of consecutive lengthy hours of application development. The
participants would be provided with the opportunity to show their skills on programming and
enter to win astonishing awards. They will have 24 hours to come up with a plan, code and
generate a working demonstration of a theme-oriented social desktop/web/mobile app. NUCES-
ACM will provide the place, Internet connectivity, food and other essential facilities to the
teams.
There will also be an incentive for companies who want to incorporate the companys API or
toolset into their sponsorship. They may give a small introduction/tutorial about these at the start.
At the end, the participants will present their operational apps in front of the spectators and a
qualified panel of judges for their evaluation.

Potential Involvement:

Universities
Professionals

Expected Number of Participants: 100-150

Age Group: 20-35

Gaming competition
Gaming has always been said to be a source to learn strategic performance and maneuvering
even in time constrained critical situations. Working successfully in todays world requires
spontaneous but correct decisions and this trait can be developed if young professionals or
students pursuing their professional degrees participate in games that involve the mind in a
calculated and strategic atmosphere. The gaming competition will consist of 3 most popular
games Defense of the Ancients (DOTA), Counter Strike (CS), FIFA12(Console) and NFS MW
(Console). NUCES- ACM will acquire hi-tech gaming machines from a renowned Gaming zone
to provide extreme gaming experience to the participants.
Gaming competitions also lighten up the atmosphere and embellish it with a touch of
entertainment for the participating teams. The strategic concepts are necessary in todays world to
ensure productive performance. The practice of gaming is an additional personality trait for
professionals.

Potential Involvement:

University
Colleges
School (Above grade 9)

Expected Numbers of Participants: 200-250

Age Group: 15-25

Custom PC
A chance to flaunt your PC!
NUCES-ACM invites the computing enthusiasts to bring out their machines and exhibit their
efforts to the audience. In this competition the machines will compete with each other. As a test
run, we conducted this competition limiting the participants to NUCES-FAST only and it turned
out to be vastly admired and participated.
This time we plan to take it onto a national level by attracting participants from Schools,
Colleges and Universities from all over Pakistan. This would be an exhibition oriented contest
covering the fascinating details of a PC. This contest will attract a lot of public, as many of the
college and university students have interest in modifying their PCs. Taking it to a national level
will add to the competitive aura of the event. The participants would be required to bring their
PCs along with them on the day of the event. They would be provided with proper space and
power to setup their machines. NUCES ACM will bear responsibility for the security of the PCs.
We plan to hold the competition in a place at the campus where it is visible to maximum
visitors. Later that day, judges will take a round and will test each machine on its performance
and appearance. Moreover, a public poll will be organized to invite opinions from the attendees.
The winner will be awarded with a motivating prize.

Potential Involvement:
School (Above grade 9)
Colleges
Universities

Expected Participation: 50-100

Age Group: 15-25

Technology Showcase

We intend to present our audience with a platform where they can showcase their talent with the
devices they had been tweaking. Using technology is more fun when you can identify and get
into the core of the gadget. The trend of techno-freaks playing with their gadgets is currently
towards a hike. Tapping onto that section of the participating teams we allow them to exhibit
their hacks and modifications in front of an enthusiastic audience and get acclaimed by our
honorable judges from the industry.

Participants can present their tweaks, hacks and other techno-cool stuff (not applications)
that they made on their existing devices such as kinnect, ipads etc. This will be a platform for the
youngsters to showcase their talent. The participants would be required to submit the abstracts
which will describe their hack/tweak on the basis of which we will shortlist the participants who
will be invited to exhibit their discovery.The judges from industry will evaluate the participants
on the basis of quality and the utility of the product. This event is bound to promote NUCES
ACM in the field of technology.

This needs skills hacking your mind to come up with breaking new functionality or a feature
which will have high utility and finding features that are even unknown to the maker/developer
of the product. You can extend the existing products and use the existing ones to develop a new
product. It will provide the opportunity to get acknowledged for the effort and become a source
of inspiration for others. The participants should belong to some educational institute.

Potential Involvement:
Colleges
Universities

Expected Participation: 50-100

Age Group: 15-25

Logo Designing Competition

At this juncture is another interesting feature of GEEK WEEK12. The participants would be
encouraged to decorate, draw, paint or design the logo of ACM using their creative skills. They
are allowed to develop ideas from the existing logos of ACM. The submissions will be accepted
in the form of canvas, digital copy, paper or cardboard. Participants would be judged upon their
innovation and presentation of the product.

These Designs would be placed for exhibition in the campus throughout the event of GEEK
WEEK12.

Potential Involvement:
School (Above grade 9)
Colleges
Universities

Expected Participation: 50-100

Age Group: 15-25
Workshops(All Pakistan):
Open Workshops will be conducted during the event days to facilitate the attendees with
knowledge related to a certain companys excellence. The company will be accommodated with
a choice of topics to be conferred.

Expected Participation: 100-200

Age Group: 20-40

Overall Expected Participation of GEEK WEEK12:

1500-2500 people

Overall Expected Age Group of attendees:

15-35
Objectives of GEEK WEEK12:

The purposes are

To bring together all the major computing institutes across Asia

Fabricate some pioneering products that can assist the society

Promoting ourselves in the field of computing

Enormous opportunity for students to prove their mettle

To learn working in teams and manage challenging situations

Interact with Industry and add to the repute of the institution

Promote a good image of the Pak-India relationship to the world and promoting world
peace

Prominent Features of GEEK WEEK 2012

Three major Institutions of Lahore get together for one competition.

Joint Pak-India closing ceremony.
Participation from over 25 institutes expected (Pakistan).
5 active ACM chapters in Asia join hands.
Distributed competitions concept introduced by FAST-NU.
Around 2000 participants expected.
FAST-NU being the pioneer of implementing the concept.
Technologically excellent networking arrangement being introduced.
Publicity on ACM Internationals website.
Message to the world - changing views about Pakistan.
Media Coverage in all the participating institutions